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(ANSA) - Milan, December 2 - Two Moroccans arrested on Tuesday were planning terrorist attacks on targets in northern Italy after failing to make the ``necessary contacts`` to be sent abroad as jihad fighters, police said. Rachid Ilhami, 31, and Gafir Abdelkader, 42, are alleged to have been planning attacks on an immigration office and a police barracks in Milan as well as police stations, a supermarket and a night club carpark in smaller towns in the Lombardy region. Milan anti-terrorist unit chief Bruno Megale stressed that the pair were not ``an organic part of any organisation`` despite wiretapped conversations...

A RUNAWAY emu was corralled with shopping trolleys by employees of a Wisconsin Wal-Mart today. Myron, the three-year-old Australian native, was thought to have fled his farmyard home after being scared by a coyote, the Associated Press reported. Employees of Wal-Mart in the town of West Bend found the big bird in their carpark and used shopping trolleys to round him up, police said. A manager then fed Myron grapes and apples to calm him down. His owner, Richard Takacs, said he was not surprised when police called him from the store about 3km from his pumpkin farm. "They can...